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This edition of the book was bound without pages 137-8, so I’m waiting on an older copy to arrive to fill in the blank.

After the battle!

Day Three!

All in on Finree’s and Gorst’s arcs. Curious about Craw’s, as well.

Day Two

Particularly invested in Gorst, Shivers, and Calder.

Day One! Lord Grimdark, you’re done it again

Required reading in high school. Nice to have the pressure removed and reading faster because of it, ironically. Certainly thinking more critically and enjoying it. Between this and Malamud’s The Natural, blending baseball with fantasy should inspire more books/stories like themselves. I love the genres separately, and together they better illustrate the romance of the game and the resilience of humanity.

Alternating baseball fiction with First Law spinoffs this summer!

I love when spin-offs further the overall narrative as opposed to choosing random points from a timeline.

A shameless, violent revenge tale is better than most any kind of fiction available—fantasy, sci-fi, horror, etc.

Can’t believe how much I’m digging this book. Loved the First Law trilogy and now this one even more. Monza truly is an Edmond Dantes unto herself and I’m here for it.

Absolutely loved the First Law trilogy, so I was unsure of a sequel-spinoff. Firmly entrenched in the book, and I can say it might be my favorite of the series so far. Like a fantasy Count of Monte Cristo.

It hasn’t aged great, but I get it

“Sometimes he wished he had no ambitions—often wondered where they had come from in his life, because he remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had—a dog, a stick, an aloneness he loved (which did not bleed him like his later loneliness), and he wished he could have lived longer in his boyhood. This was an old thought with him.”

Wish Malamud wrote more baseball fables

It hasn’t aged very well, but still, admittedly, beautifully written. Thoroughly engrossed.

The inevitability of Murbella

“Chapterhouse and its few remaining subsidiaries were nurseries of an order founded in sharing and Sharing. Not based on innocence. That had been lost long ago. It was set firmly in political consciousness and a view of history independent of other laws and customs.”

Perhaps the best aspect of the Dune books for me is that they never go where I expect but that alone is also what keeps me coming back. 2 books to go, and it’s clear Frank was cooking when he passed.

To a Reverend Mother, the Bene Gesserit is all

When a mentat loves, *if* he could love…

Just a pair of mentat-gholas here, nothing dubious

Futars, man

The Dar & Tar saga is a wild direction and I’m here for it